Jagrit Kisan, Khushhal Bharat: the farmers' gatherings

Gramya began with farmers learning organic farming on the Foundation's own farm. As the number of villages grew, the Foundation started bringing their farmers together once or twice a year to learn from each other and from experts.

On 27 October 2011, the day after Diwali, a farmers' meeting was held with the Govardhan Puja, the festival that honours the land and the cattle. On 25 December 2012 the Foundation held its first Kisan Sammelan in Bareilly under the banner Jagrit Kisan, Khushhal Bharat — an awake farmer, a prosperous India — with talks on soil, seeds and the price a farmer gets for his crop.

On 22 December 2016 a Jaivik Krishi Sammelan, a conference on organic farming, filled the hall at Silver Law College on the Pilibhit Road in Bareilly. Farmers who had moved to organic methods described what had changed in their fields and their costs, and the Foundation's volunteers explained compost, NADEP manure and neem-based pest control to those who had not yet tried them. A Kisan Sammelan was held the same day.

By 2018 the gatherings had become a network of village workers. On 11 November 2018, 400 farmer-workers from a hundred villages were invited to a conference on crop diversification, cooperative societies, organic farming and the next year's plans; 325 attended, and all pledged to take part.

In 2019 the idea went one step further: at the Gandhi Jayanti programme in Bareilly, city residents were asked to list what they buy every day, so that the villages could supply it directly to them.

The meetings continue. On 29 May 2022, 78 farmer-workers from 24 villages met at Silver Law College, Rithora, where Dr Rakesh Pandey of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bareilly, spoke on the coming paddy season, pests and the careful use of pesticides, and on pulses, sesame, self-help groups and farmer producer organisations. Each village was asked to form a gram samiti of 20 to 25 workers with its own bank account, to which the farmers and the Foundation would both contribute. On 22 January 2023, 145 workers of the gram samitis now formed in 25 villages met at the same college for training and to plan the year's work.